Elegant blind snake

Species of snake

Elegant blind snake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Afrotyphlops
Species:
A. elegans
Binomial name
Afrotyphlops elegans
(Peters, 1868)
Synonyms
  • Typhlops elegans Peters, 1868

The elegant blind snake (Afrotyphlops elegans), also called the elegant worm snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.[1][2] It was described by Wilhelm Peters in 1868. The species occurs on the island of Príncipe in São Tomé and Príncipe.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
  2. ^ McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1
  3. ^ Afrotyphlops elegans at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 July 2018.

Further reading

  • Peters, 1868 : Über eine neue Nagergattung, Chiropodomys penicullatus, sowie über einige neue oder weniger bekannte Amphibien und Fische. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin
Taxon identifiers
Typhlops elegans
Afrotyphlops elegans
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